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Default Orgreenic pots and pans

I'm watching the infomercial now. The products
are pots and pans with a ceramic non-stick coating.
The claim is that regular non-stick coatings
break down at high heat or due to tool abrasion,
which is true, but their ceramic coating does not.
They compare their coating to glass.

But glass is not non-stick. And the infomercial
is filmed such that you see lots of food sliding
out of their fry pan under its own weight, but
you never see what happened immediately before
the food slid out. If they release the food from
the pan first, it'll even slide out of a glass pan.
What you don't see is something like an egg being
fried, and then sliding out of the pan without
any cut in the video between cooking and sliding.
There's always a cut between the cooking and the
sliding, if you see the cooking at all.

So, that gets my suspicion up. I haven't used
non-stick since my last one started smoking after
I left it on a burner and forgot about it. I held
my breath, opened the kitchen window, tossed the
smoking pot out the window, retreated to the
bathroom, resumed breathing, and set up my big fan
in the bathroom window to blow all the air out of
the house. When I recovered the pot, the coating
looked fine, but I discarded it anyway.

I wouldn't mind owning another non-stick pan if it
wouldn't break down into toxic fumes at high heat
like all conventional non-stick pans do. The
orgreenic informercial offers a pan for $19.95
plus shipping and handling. They don't tell you
how much that is, which seems a bit cagey.

I'm skeptical any ceramic surface can really be
non-stick. In college, I used a porcelainized
steel pot for everything, and that stuck a lot.
It also chipped easily. The infomercial doesn't
say anything about what new technology they might
have which would make their cookware any different.

Being cagey about the true price and the crafty
way they filmed the infomercial convinces me not to
buy this product. If the product really worked as
advertised, they wouldn't have to resort to these
camera tricks.

Does anybody here have one of these pans? Is it
truly non-stick, like suggested by the infomercial?
 
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